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What Comes After Postcolonial Theory?
This essay explores possible paths after postcolonial theory, with the after understood not as a negation, but as a form of inheritance and the...
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Postcolonial theory and Canada’s health care professions: bridging the gap
In recent years there have been several calls in professional and academic journals for healthcare personnel in Canada to raise the profile of...
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The Francophone Postcolonial Thinkers and the Colonizer-Colonized Dialectic
The invidious relationship between the colonizer and colonized is locked in a dialectical and reciprocal relationship. The history of colonization of...
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A Postcolonial Theory of Recognition: Honneth and Fanon on Violence and Mutual Recognition
Frantz Fanon provides a rough sketch of what mutual recognition might look like within the postcolonial situation in the penultimate chapter of Black...
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Ukraine, language policies and liberalism: a mixed second act
This article analyses Ukraine’s language policies from 2002 to 2022 within a framework of liberalism, while avoiding making normative judgements or...
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Situating Postcolonial Africa within Popper’s Critique of Nationalism
The resurgence of nationalist sentiments, from the United States to Europe as well as Africa has fuelled rising political divisions, the drift...
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Migration as Reparation for Colonialism
It is commonly accepted that former European colonising states ought to make reparations for the many harmful legacies of colonialism. I defend an...
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What is Western About Western thought?
The question at the centre of this paper is part of a larger debate. Though the more limited question is hardly ever asked in academic discussions,...
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Toward a Postcolonial Universal Ontology
The critique of Western metaphysics Metaphysicsoutlines how the African other has been depicted as not fully human in relation to the western...
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Kumusha and masalads: (inter)generational foodways and urban food security in Zimbabwe
Understandings of urban foodways in Zimbabwe and other African countries have been dominated by food security frameworks. The focus on material...
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Environmental Racism and Climate (In)Justice in the Anthropocene: Addressing the Silences and Erasures in Management and Organization Studies
In this paper, we are situated in postcolonial, decolonial, and feminist epistemologies to study environmental racism in the Anthropocene—a new...
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Digital Despotism and Aristotle on the Despotic Master–Slave Relation
This paper analyzes a contemporary conception of digital despotism through themes drawn from classical Greek philosophy. By taking as a measure some...
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What To Do with the Past?: Sanskrit Literary Criticism in Postcolonial Space
Throughout its history of almost a millennium and a half, Sanskrit kāvyaśāstra was resolutely obsessed with the task of unravelling the ontology kāvya ...
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Octavio Ocampo, Mexican painter: a metamorphic look at the discourse between the local and the global
Art and science is an area of research that has strengthened recently, mainly due to the impact of interdisciplinary work. At the same time,...
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Artistic Practices in Postcolonial Context in Benin Republic: Cases of Magou Amedée and ‘Eclosion Urbaine’ (1990–2007)
The establishment of colonial metropolises in Africa was an important step to strengthen the concept of urban and rural areas. Some precolonial...
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Postcolonialism
This article presents the philosophical influences of postcolonial studies and their object through its protagonists, namely E.W. Said, A. Nandy,...
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Small farmers, big tech: agrarian commerce and knowledge on Myanmar Facebook
Despite increasing attention to the sensors, drones, robots, and apps permeating agri-food systems, little attention has been paid to social media,...
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James Mill and the History of the History of British India
Apart from the economic drain of wealth that occurs under imperialism, it is the colonizer’s discourse on the colonized that is most insidious. Once...
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African Philosophy of Development
Over 60 years of political development, most postcolonial African nations appear to be condemned to live perpetually in conditions of unmitigated...